Nazir

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The custodian of a waqf, or Islamic endowment. historical
  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of Nazir (“Nazarite, a Jew bound by vow to do certain things”). alt-of
  3. 3
    A Nazarite (Nazirite).

    "Lo, I am a Nazir if all of you are Nazirs,”— lo, all of them are Nazirs. M. 5: 7 The parallel cases, stated in apocopation, M. 5:5, 7, go over the ground of vows to be a Nazir made in error. The first case presents three pairs: […]"

  4. 4
    A native official in an Anglo-Indian court who served summonses, etc. historical
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A treatise, in the Talmud, devoted to the Nazirite laws. Judaism
  2. 2
    a surname and given name common in Pakistan
  3. 3
    A village in Markazi Province, Iran, also Qeshlaq-e Nazarlu.

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""DNA test is positive. DNA test is positive." Those brief words by court official Mohammed Nazir in Kalmunai town in eastern Sri Lanka ended a traumatizing wait by the parents of a four-month old baby found in the debris from the December 26 tsunami."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hindustani, from Classical Persian نَظِیر (nazīr), from Arabic نَظِير (naẓīr).

Etymology 2

See Nazir.

Etymology 3

From Hebrew נָזִיר (nāzīr).

Etymology 4

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